Shohei Ohtani’s RBI single capped a four-run eighth-inning rally in his Dodgers debut as Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 in Wednesday’s season opener in Seoul, South Korea, as the sport turned when a routine grounder went via the webbing of first baseman Jake Cronenworth.
Teoscar Hernandez scored the go-ahead run on an error that may very well be construed as an gear malfunction. Gavin Lux’s grounder off Adrian Morejon went via Cronenworth’s glove, and the ball finally settled in proper subject as Hernandez scored from second base to present Los Angeles a 3-2 lead.
“It might have gone via innings earlier than that. It simply occurred at that state of affairs, and it sucks,” Cronenworth mentioned. “I imply, I believed it was a simple double play, I caught it on the primary bounce.”
Watching from the dugout, Padres supervisor Mike Shildt was pondering San Diego had gotten out of the inning.
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“I felt fairly assured it was a 3-6-1,” he mentioned. “But it surely goes via his webbing and the remaining is historical past.”
Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani capped their two-hit performances with run-scoring singles within the eighth inning.
“That is a tricky error for Cro,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “Lucky break for us. You bought to take them when you will get them.”
Ohtani went 2-for-5 in his first sport since leaving the Los Angeles Angels for a file 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers. A crowd of 15,952 was readily available to observe on the Gocheok Sky Dome for Main League Baseball’s first sport in South Korea.
“Only a good evening general for Shohei,” Roberts mentioned. “The larger image, it is important since you’ve acquired such a generational expertise that’s in your ballclub in an enormous market in Los Angeles. There’s much more eyeballs on the Dodgers and on Main League Baseball.”
Ohtani, the two-way star who is proscribed to batting after elbow surgical procedure, had a psychological error that precipitated the ultimate out of the eighth inning. He was known as out when he handed second base after which did not retouch the bag whereas retreating on Freddie Freeman’s flyout, inflicting an inning-ending double play.
Xander Bogaerts had an RBI single amongst his two hits for the Padres, who mustered simply 4 singles in opposition to 5 Dodgers pitchers.
The Padres have been nursing a 2-1 lead earlier than Wandy Peralta walked Max Muncy to guide off the eighth inning and reliever Jhony Brito (0-1) loaded the bases after Hernandez singled to middle and James Outman walked on 4 pitches. Muncy scored on a sacrifice fly by Enrique Hernandez to finish Brito’s night earlier than Cronenworth’s glove hassle modified the complexion of the sport.
San Diego opened the scoring within the third inning after Tyler Wade got here dwelling on Bogaerts’ single to middle in opposition to a drawn-in infield.
Los Angeles answered within the fourth. Hernandez superior to second base following a throwing error by third baseman Wade. Hernandez moved to 3rd on a groundout and scampered dwelling on Jason Heyward’s sacrifice fly to deep proper subject.
Machado walked on 4 pitches to guide off the fourth inning and superior to second after Tyler Glasnow walked Ha-Seong Kim. A well-placed bunt by Jurickson Profar loaded the bases earlier than Machado scored on a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Luis Campusano.
Glasnow allowed two runs on two hits with 4 walks and three strikeouts in 5 innings. The Dodgers acquired Glasnow in a Dec. 16 commerce with the Tampa Bay Rays and signed him to a five-year, $136.5 million contract extension.
“The entire day was sort of a grind,” Glasnow mentioned. “Loud — cool ambiance.”
Daniel Hudson (1-0) acquired the win after throwing a one-hit seventh. Evan Phillips pitched an ideal ninth for the save, ending a four-hitter that gave the Dodgers their sixth straight win over the Padres in an opener.
Padres pitchers walked 9 and hit a batter, and the Dodgers had seven hits, none for further bases. Within the first sport since MLB shortened the pitch clock with runners on base by two seconds to 18, Padres pitchers have been known as for 4 violations, together with two by Peralta and one every by Yu Darvish and Yuki Matsui.
Utilizing the glove from his first main league look, former Dodgers and Padres pitcher Chan Ho Park threw the ceremonial first pitch.
Earlier than the sport, Park, who works as an adviser with San Diego, expressed satisfaction about how his achievements and people of his former Japanese teammate, Hideo Nomo, impressed youthful generations of Asian gamers to attempt to attain the majors. Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995.
“After I take a look at all these Asian gamers right now, I really feel that the tree planted by Hideo Nomo has grown sturdy and the tree planted by Chan Ho Park has grown sturdy, and that the fruits of these bushes at the moment are main the majors and galvanizing new hope,” Park mentioned.
Betts, Ohtani and Freeman turned the primary MVPs to hit 1-2-3 in a batting order since Philadelphia’s Joe Morgan, Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt throughout 10 video games in 1993. The one different cases have been by Cincinnati’s Huge Purple Machine, with Rose, Morgan and George Foster on Could 13, 1978, and Rose, Morgan and Johnny Bench on Could 5, 1976.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, one other huge Dodgers addition this offseason, makes his main league debut Thursday after agreeing to a 12-year, $325 million contract. He had an 8.38 ERA over 9â…” innings in three spring coaching outings.
“I am not likely involved in regards to the numbers,” Yamamoto mentioned via an interpreter.
Joe Musgrove begins for the Padres on Thursday after going 10-3 with a 3.05 ERA in 17 begins final yr.
The Related Press and Subject Stage Media contributed to this report.